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The Joy of Sticks Relaunch! 24 Oct 2010 | 08:53 pm
Please redirect your links and feed readers over here: http://thejoyofsticks.co.uk. It’s not just a move, it’s a relaunch, a revamp, a revitalisation! Hop over there and let me know what you think.
Unidentified Flying Objects Spotted Over Mt. Fuji 15 Oct 2009 | 08:06 am
All you crazed, gun-toting xenophobes out there rejoice, for there is a brand new opportunity to vapourize E.T. and his glowing-fingered buddies from the comfort of your ST. Paradize have released a ...
Super Sprint review 2 Oct 2009 | 07:21 am
You can trace Super Sprint’s ancestry right back to the dawn of arcades with arguably the first ever sports simulator: Gran-Trak (Gran-Trak was also the first game to use on-board ROM enabling the use...
Low Res Web Magazine Released: Go There, Be Happy! 31 Aug 2009 | 11:20 am
ThorN, ChrisTOS and SimonSunnyboy, geniuses behind STOT (ST Offline Tournament) have released an online magazine dedicated to retro computing, with a decidedly Atari ST slant to this first issue. It’s...
Starball review 27 Aug 2009 | 10:01 am
Dave oldcorn’s PD pinball game Starball, heavily influenced by Devil Crash/Devil’s Crush/Dragon’s Fury (depending on where you live and what system you own) skill-shot its way onto the Atari ST in 199...
r0x review 13 Jul 2009 | 06:47 am
When news of this game first broke, I took one look at the screenshots over at RGCD and thought to myself: ‘Wow! A new shoot ‘em up for the ST!’ as this is the first action game released for the ST fo...
Heavy Stylus and TomChi is teh r0xx0rzzz!!!!!!!! 13 Jun 2009 | 08:42 am
A new game! And it isn’t a puzzle game! And it looks bloody gorgeous! image taken from pouet.net r0x, a brand spanking new avoid ‘em up is brought to you by TomChi (No Extra) and Heavy Stylus (RGCD)...
CodeJunkie starts weekly review column 21 May 2009 | 07:22 pm
CodeJunkie, coder of OutCaST (the excellent ST emulator for the GP2X), has started a new feature over at his blog. Entitled ‘Game of the Week,’ CodeJunkie intends to eschew the obvious (Lemmings, Civ...
First Impressions #3: Civilization intro 10 May 2009 | 02:28 am
As per a request by Alignn over on my YouTube channel, I have added the intro to Sid Meier’s Civilization. Not as cinematic as Another World or Epic by any stretch, and not particularly technically di...
Sideways – prototype 8 May 2009 | 08:57 am
Jamie Woodhouse (author of the rather spiffing ST game Nitro and Amiga’s Qwak) has made available his playable prototype of Sideways, a sidescrolling (figures) shoot ‘em up that features more than the...
